Defecating stool



Sept. 4, 1934. H. G. MOULDER DEFECATING STOOL Filed Oct. 9, 1953 IN VEN TOR. 5 777M121 m ATTORNEY position.

Patented Sept. 4, 1934 DEFECATING STOOL Harry G. Moulder, Kansas City, Mo. Application October 9, 1933, Serial No. 692,798

3 Claims.

My invention relates to improvements in defecating stools.

One of the objects of my invention is the provision of novel means for adapting the usual household defecating stools for the convenient and comfortable use of children.

A further object of my invention is the provision of a device of the kind described, which is simple, cheap, strong, durable, not likely to get out of order, and which may be applied for use on defecating stools already installed.

The novel features of my invention are hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates my invention, Fig. 1 is a plan View, partly broken away, showing my improved stool with the auxiliary seats and the foot rest in their operative positions.

Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, showing the upper auxiliary seat and foot rest raised from, and the lower auxiliary seat in, the operative position.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged side elevation of the auxiliary seats, the foot rest and their support, show ing the upper seat and foot rest raised from, and the lower seat in the operative position.

Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3, showing the auxiliary seats and the foot rest in their operative positions.

Similar characters of reference designate similar parts in the different views.

1 designates the bowl of the usual household defecating stool, and 2 the usual seat thereof, shown in Figs. 1 and 2 in the raised inoperative 3 designates the floor on which the bowl 1 is mounted, and 4 the adjacent wall, at one side of the bowl 1.

My improvement provides a vertical frame 5 arranged to be fastened by screws 6 to the floor 3 between the bowl 1 and the wall 4 and adjacent to both. Hinged on a horizontal axis to the frame 5 is a lower auxiliary seat 7 adapted to be swung to and from a horizontal operative position across the resting on the bowl 1, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

3 designates an upper auxiliary seat hinged on the supporting frame 5 on the same axis as the seat 7, and adapted to be swung thereon to and from a horizontal operative position resting on .the seat 7, when the latter is in the operative position, and extending across the bowl 1, as shown in Fig. 1.

The lower auxiliary seat 7 is provided therethrough with a hole 9 which is smaller than the .hole 2' in the seat 2, and which is larger than the hole 10 provided through the auxiliary seat 3.

When the usual seat 2 is to be used, the auxiliary seats 7 and 8 are both swung to the upper position in which the upper seat 8 can lean against the wall 4, and the lower seat 7 can lean against the seat 8.

If the seat 7, intended for larger children, is to be used, the seat 2 is swung upwardly to the rearwardly inclined inoperative position, shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and the seat '7 is swung to the horizontal operative position resting on top of the bowl 1.

If the upper seat 8, intended for smaller children, is to beused, it is swung down upon the seat 7, which is placed in the operative position, as shown in Fig. 1.

A foot rest for childrens use is provided, comprising a plate 11 hinged adjacent to one end to a horizontal bar 12, forming part of the sup porting frame 5. The bar 12 is parallel with the axis of the seats '7 and 8, and is spaced above the floor 3. The plate 11 is adapted tov be slid later-- ally on its hinged connection with the bar 12, nearer to or further from the bowl 1, as desired.

For supporting the foot rest plate 11 in the horizontal operative position, shown in Figs. 1 and 4, it has pivoted to its under side adjacent to its free end by a hinge 13, the transverse part 14 of a U shaped member, the arms 15 of which have their lower ends resting on the floor 3, when the plate 11 is in the operative position, shown in Figs. 1 and 4. When it is not to be used, the plate 11 may be swung to the upright position and then permitted to lean rearwardly against the wall 4, as shown in Fig. 2.

Various modifications of my invention, within the scope of the appended claims, may be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.

What I claim is:

1. In a defecating stool, the combination with a bowl, of a support at one side of said bowl, two seats hinged to said support so as to be swung to and from operative positions over said bowl and having respectively therethrough two holes of different sizes, and a foot rest hinged to said support so as to swing independently of either of said seats from an upstanding position to a horizontal position resting on the floor in front of said bowl. i

2. In a defecating stool, the combination with a bowl, of a support at one side of said bowl, two seats hinged to said support so as to be swung to and from operative positions over said bowl and having respectively therethrough two holes a bowl and a seat therefor, of a support at one side of said bowl, and a foot rest hinged to said support so as to be swung from an upstanding position independently of said seat to a horizontal position resting on the floor in front of said bowl, and transversely slidabie on said support so as to be adjusted to positions in front of said bowl and at different distances therefrom.

HARRY G. MOULDER. 

